Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.

Be candid with everyone.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Change before you have to.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

I glance down, and my eyes get big."What?" He glances down, realizes why my eyes are big, and shrugs his shoulders. "It's morning.""It's cute. Can I keep it?

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Americans have always excelled through hard work, innovation, and an ability to find solutions that makes us unique among nations.

We are several people fitted inside each other. Chinese boxes. Our bodies are the outside box. Or the inside one if you like.

There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be trying very much.

All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.

To have not shot his friend in the face would have sent a message to the quail that America is weak.

Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.

No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.